Looking to read or watch something about real mysteries, it can be anything, pyramids, JFK, aliens, cults, life-death-heaven-hell, time travel, bigfoot, mind reading, people who 'vanished', etc...
Can you (seriously) mention some of the greatest mysteries ever.
This is a famous British case, Lord Lucan.
https://youtu.be/a3DWsXwpOtE
Many reports that he was alive and living in Africa until he passed away in his 80s, and that he was in touch with his children and upper-class friends who didn't see a problem with covering up things for him or killing the help.
This is one of the few mysteries mentioned on the thread where the truth may come out in our lifetimes.
The Dyatlov Pass Incident.
Probably drugs. Teenagers go out in the middle of nowhere for one reason ... to get high.
shareI highly doubt it. This was 1950's Russia and they were all experienced winter hikers.
shareThey were teenagers who went far away from everyone and for an unknown reason fled their tent in the middle of the night, some sans clothing. IIRC, the rescue team concluded the tent had been ripped open from the inside. One or more may have taken LSD, had a bad trip or decided to go for a nature trip, and the resulting chaos cost them their lives.
shareno. It was a series of unfortunate events and bad choices. No drugs involved, and especially not fucking LSD lol. Alcohol probably played a role though
shareDisagree. Certainly bad choices, and you can't say there were no drugs. It could have been a different hallucinogenic but I would bet on LSD. One thing I know for certain, it was a shitty place for skiing or camping, so they went there to do something sketchy and for unknown reasons freaked out and died. People want to believe in UFOs or Commie experiments but it's just boring old mundane drugs.
shareyou seem to underestimate how quickly things can go bad even when you're completely sober in a location like that
shareI've been in locations exactly like that, in sub-zero temps, hundreds of times. Granted I was better prepared than those kids, but places like that aren't where most young people go for fun.
shareIt was 1959 in the Soviet Union. There was no LSD. It wasn't even widely available in the US at this point, besides be studied by and experimented with by a small group of people. Most people didn't even know what it was.
LSD was known and could be synthesized, one of them was a chemistry major.
shareYou're reaching here. You know the chances of this are astronomically slim, right?
I've read a lot about LSD and its not exactly easy to make. It would take a skilled chemist, not a chemistry major, and the precursor chemicals are all highly restricted, which wouldn't even be available in the first place. Again, for the third time, this was in the Soviet Union in 1959 lol.
And no, I don't believe any of the ridiculous theories that it was UFO's, so I'm leaning towards the scientific theory of infrasound. I suggest reading the book "Dead Mountin" and try to come up with a more plausible theory.
I'm not the one reaching but mundane isn't exciting. Be careful, most of the information out there is false, made up to sensationalize the event and sell books or get attention. And I've read the infrasound theory, along with many others, but there is no credible evidence for any of them. I'll stick with plausible: drugs.
shareBy your username, I'd assume you'd be more knowledgeable about drugs, yet clearly you have no idea what you're talking about. LSD use in the Soviet Union during the 1950's is a laughable assumption. Do you even have any sources whatsoever that it was available as a recreational substance during this era?
And by the slim chance it was hallucinogens, which I very much doubt, the chance of every single person having a bad trip at the exact same moment and running out into the snow to their deaths is about a million to 1.
The investigation was opened up again in 2019 and they concluded they fled the tent because of an avalanche and succumbed to hypothermia.
Yes, the greatest mystery as far as I'm concerned is; how can anyone like Aerosmith?
shareWhat happened to Maura Murray ? It's a missing persons case that fascinates and baffles.
shareThere's a similar case that happened in Montana. A woman named Patricia Meehan walked away from an automobile accident and has been out of touch ever since.
If you're intrigued with missing persons cases (I am), you might like this web site -- http://charleyproject.org/
If you want real mysteries, become a scientist.
shared.b. cooper.
shareI watched this recently. https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2020/11/db-coopers-unsolved-nw-skyjacking-explored-again-in-new-history-channel-series.html It was an interesting and entertaining new perspective on the case. The most significant takeaway for me at the conclusion was that they now have his DNA and have used it to rule out a major suspect. If anything could finally solve the mystery, that evidence would be it, much like with The Golden State Killer.
shareHBO has a new doc as well
https://moviechat.org/tt8694594/The-Mystery-of-DB-Cooper
I know. I posted on that board a few minutes ago.
shareHey, thanks for posting this! I knew about the History Channel program and had it on my DVR, but was unaware HBO had done something too. I'll give it a look.
shareThis investigative piece covers a lot of what happened after his famous escape:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3588938/
wow, I haven't heard about this one. thanks!
shareOn the Sopranos, Tony's uncle references, in passing, Judge Crater, as in "Who's at the door?"--"Judge Crater. How should i know?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Force_Crater
The war on Drugs
shareThe complete failure of the Arctic expedition in the 1840s and what happened to the crews of HMS Terror and HMS Erebus is a gruesome fascination of mine.....especially if you see the photos of the three frozen buried crew members.
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